__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Apple Security Update 2005-006 [APPLE Article ID 301742] June 9, 2005 17:00 GMT Number P-215 [REVISED 10 Jun 2005] ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Apple released software updates for Mac OS X and Max OS X Server to address several security vulnerabilities. PLATFORM: Mac OS X v10.3.9 Mac OS X Server v10.3.9 Mac OS X v10.4.1 Mac OS X Server v10.4.1 DAMAGE: Various security issues were addressed. These issues have several impacts, including denial of service, local privilege escalation, buffer overflow, and execution of arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Install the security patches. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. The most severe of these vulnerabilities, ASSESSMENT: launchd and vpn server, could allow escalation of privileges. System components could allow execution of arbitrary code. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-215.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 ADDITIONAL LINKS: US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#983429 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/983429 CVE/CAN: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CAN-2005-1721 CAN-2005-1720 CAN-2005-1333 CAN-2005-1722 CAN-2005-1726 CAN-2005-1727 CAN-2005-1725 CAN-2005-1723 CAN-2005-1728 CAN-2005-1724 CAN-2005-0524 CAN-2005-0525 CAN-2005-1042 CAN-2005-1043 CAN-2005-1343 ______________________________________________________________________________ REVISION HISTORY: 06/10/05 - Added a link to US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#983429. [***** Start APPLE Article ID 301742 *****] Visit Apple's Website directly for their published information on their Security Update 08 June 2005: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301742 [***** End APPLE Article ID 301742 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Applr for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. 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